Project Director: Project Director, Paul Lima
is the founder of Endangered Coast. He is an American photographer born Feb. 5, 1961, in Ithaca, New York.
Self taught, he has a ten year career in New York City as a freelance photographer.
His photojournalism credits include photos and text in the international magazine Aqua
Geographia. Exhibitions include: The United Nations, 1996. The Roger Smith
Gallery, NYC, 1995. His other published works include: Global Competitor,
Cover, Theater Week, The Brazilian Times, Portugal Brazilian
News, The New York Law Journal, The New York Post, and The Daily
News.
Mr. Lima's photograph's of Brazil were made on three major trips to the country in 1988, 1994, and 1998. The changes he saw in the region convinced him that a photo documentary of the Northeast Coast was important and necessary. The United Nations agreed and in 1996 invited Mr. Lima to present his images to the world, in a solo exhibition. Joanne F. Przeworski of UNEP, writes "The UN strongly supports such individual activism aimed at motivating others to undertake conservation and ecologically sound development....I belive efforts such as his--to raise awareness in the areas under threat--are particularly important." Equally impressed was Robert L. Carneiro, Curator of South American Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC. He writes "...This most interesting tradition of fishing and seamanship is being seriously threatened by modern developement...I am convinced that your project richly deserves to be funded." In Italy, magazines like Aqua Geographia, whose dedication to "life above and below water" prompted its editor, Heko Bueler, to remark, "We look forward in publishing more of Mr. Lima's work world-wide and to do what we can to publicize his efforts." Looking to the future Mr. Lima states , "I will continue to press for the cultural survival of the Brazilian fishermen and will seek to document other fishing cultures, particularly those in the Americas." |